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Holding up a photo of a mountaintop removal coal mining site, a lawyer for environmentalists urged West Virginia's Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a lower court's orders barring protesters from Massey Energy Co. operations.
The lawyer, Roger Forman, said the Raleigh County Circuit Court orders were too broad and could potentially apply to the justices themselves or anyone else.
The next few columns are designed for small-business owners who find themselves on the receiving end of one of those nasty letters from lawyers threatening action if “something” isn’t done immediately.
It may be about money. It could be about performance required by a contract. It might be a “cease-and-desist” letter, demanding that certain conduct must stop or “serious consequences” will follow that involve “going to court.”
MANILA, Philippines - Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Ed de Mesa on Tuesday said he and other members of the Malacañang legal team found no basis to initiate any criminal investigation against police and government officials involved in the August 23 hostage crisis.
In an interview, de Mesa said the Palace legal team first laid down the legal premises of the review of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) recommendations to clear up misconceptions or false premises about its intent.
CHAIRPERSON: May I start?
Okay, well, this is the Civil Society Forum, and so I'm just starting even without permission.
My name is Jo Marie Griesgraber, and you'll know why I was invited to chair this because I represent the other half of humanity. But please let me welcome all of you to the Civil Society Townhall. I call it "The Forum"--whatever. And we're going to do something a little bit different than we've done in other years.
Cargill's fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 68% from a year earlier to $883 million as the U.S. food company benefited from volatile commodity markets. Excluding Mosaic Co., a fertilizer producer in which Cargill owns a two-thirds stake, the company's earnings rose 51% to $693 million from $458 million.
MinnPost photo by Bill Kelley Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, and Ramsey County Judge Edward Cleary shown during a Dec. 16, 2008 Canvassing Board meeting.
In this second excerpt from "This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won The Minnesota Senate Recount" by Jay Weiner, the venue moves to the State Canvassing Board, comprised of four judges and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. The recount process was now in its fifth week. Unknown at the time, the Franken-Norm Coleman election would turn at this December 12 meeting when the Board, reversing an earlier decision, opted to allow a review of previously (and wrongly) rejected absentee ballot envelopes. Those rejected envelopes were now being referred to as "the fifth pile"; there were four statutory reasons to reject absentee ballot envelopes, and the "fifth pile" was for ballots turned down by election officials for no lawful reason.
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Florida Supreme Court and appellate judges are subject to merit retention votes, in which they face voters in a yes-or-no vote as to whether they should keep their jobs. New judges face their first vote in the first general election that occurs more than one year after their appointment by the governor, and every six years thereafter. Early voting for the Nov. 2 election begins Monday.
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announced today that Teri L. Donaldson has joined the firm as a Partner in the Litigation Group and John J. Michael has joined as Counsel in the Energy and Environmental Practice Group. Both are based in the firm's Houston office. The arrival of Ms. Donaldson and Mr. Michael continues the strategic growth of the firm’s Houston office and bolsters Sutherland’s environmental litigation and offshore transaction services to the energy industry.
Back in September, we wrote about David J. Stern , “Florida’s Foreclosure King,” who earned our Lawyer of the Day title for his ascendancy from the fourth tier to the lap of luxury. At the time, we sang Stern’s praises. Stern, a graduate of South Texas Law , employs 900 people, made $17.8 million in 2008, owns $60 million in real estate, and collects yachts.
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Press Register file Mobile attorney Robert T. Cunningham has been named to a plaintiffs' committee managing federal lawsuits against BP PLC over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
A federal judge in New Orleans has named 15 attorneys to serve on the plaintiffs' steering committee in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) against BP PLC over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
More than 100 lawyers had submitted applications for the lead role, which requires attorneys to coordinate discovery and motions. Lawyers on the committee stand to earn the highest attorney fees. The MDL includes about 300 lawsuits asserting personal injury, wrongful death, economic and environmental claims plus claims brought by governmental agencies.
DALLAS , Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ben DuBose , of DuBose Law Firm, PLLC, has been recognized by Thompson Reuters as a "Texas Super Lawyer" as printed in the October, 2010 Texas Monthly "Texas Super Lawyers" edition.
Thompson Reuters employs a rigorous, multiphase process in the selection of attorneys for Super Lawyers. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Nearly a year after the worst noncombat mass shooting on an American military base rocked Fort Hood and the nation, Maj. Nidal Hasan will enter a military courtroom today to begin what is expected to be a legal saga that will be watched around the world.
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist from Virginia, faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November shootings at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center. What begins today is the first part of the military's legal process: an Article 32 pretrial hearing, where prosecutors will try to persuade military officials to send Hasan to a court-martial.
Based on a state law passed last year, Melnick would not have originally been able to run for re-election once her term expired this year. The so-called “nepotism clause” in HB251 states that those running for a local school board cannot have a family member in an administrative position in the system. Her son Jan Melnick is the principal at Northside Middle School.
AUSTIN, Texas — In a state known for its high-dollar political donations, Democrat Bill White is calling for limits on the size of contributions to candidates for governor. But he still hasn't figured out how much is too much.
White, trying to unseat Republican Gov. Rick Perry, said Monday he would bring both parties together to draft appropriate campaign finance limits. He also renewed his call for limits of $10,000 from people the governor appoints to state boards and commissions.
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A federal court jury being selected today will consider claims by seven FMC Technologies employees that nooses found hanging at a plant symbolized discrimination and a hostile environment within the oil and gas equipment company.
The seven, including six African-Americans and one West Indian, also allege in their lawsuit that co-workers used racial slurs and that complaints to human resources were ignored. Jury selection is set to begin today before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt, for a trial expected to last about four weeks.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal will rule Tuesday on whether a former sex worker can challenge the Criminal Code to decriminalize prostitution.
For the past three years, the former sex worker, Sheri Kiselbach, and a team of lawyers have tried to overturn parts of the Criminal Code in an attempt to protect the lives of prostitutes. Although prostitution is technically legal in Canada, it is considered a crime to operate a bawdy house, communicate in public to sell sex or live off the avails of prostitution. Sex workers and activists say these limits endanger the lives of the women who work the streets in often dangerous conditions.
The court of criminal appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal by Ronnie Dunbar against his conviction and sentence for the manslaughter of 14-year-old Melissa Mahon in 2006.
The 45-year-old from Rathbraughan Park, Sligo, who is also known as Ronald McManus, was sentenced to life in prison in July last year after a jury found him not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of the Sligo schoolgirl.
Stan Donaldson, The Plain Dealer
View full size Gus Chan, The PD Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty talks to the media after being arraigned in federal court on corruption charges.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County voters will vote in nine contested judicial races in the Nov. 2 general election and local lawyers have released its ratings of the candidates.
After net losses, investors say clawbacks add insult to injury
Serving as a witness for federal prosecutors this summer, retired phone company lineman Sal Boccio helped put Beau Diamond in prison for running a Ponzi scheme.
Now, a federal bankruptcy court trustee claims Boccio was unjustly enriched by the Ponzi when he received monthly payments totaling $64,500.
Human rights activists around the world have called for international justice and an end to impunity in the wake of the “U.N. Mapping Report on Human Rights Abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
The report, which covers the period from 1993 to 2003, was released on Oct. 1 by the Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says that, though it covers a time period ending in 2003, these crimes continue because the perpetrators have never been prosecuted.
A special court of review Monday threw out an ethics rebuke given to Presiding Judge Sharon Keller for closing the Court of Criminal Appeals at 5 p.m. despite knowing that lawyers wanted to file an appeal for an inmate facing imminent execution in 2007.
Ruling not on the merits of the case but on the way it was handled, the three-judge panel also threw out the charges that accused Keller of violating her duty as a judge and prohibits the State Commission on Judicial Conduct from refiling the accusations.
BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com
LAWYERS for former junior energy minister Kern Spencer and his co-accused Coleen Wright are asking the court to throw out the corruption trial against their clients in light of what they say are inconsistencies in statements by the Director of Public Prosecutions Paul Llewellyn and the senior investigators in the matter.
Jurors watch police video of remains found in woods By Glenn Smith
Prosecutors expect to wrap up their case in the Kate Waring murder trial today following much testimony about the police hunt for evidence and details of a gruesome discovery.
Charleston police Detective David Osborne is scheduled to complete his testimony about his findings, followed by a pathologist who examined Waring's remains. Then, it will be up to Ethan Mack's defense team to make their case as to why he should be acquitted of murder in Waring's June 2009 slaying.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA—The Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders disciplined 18 attorneys, disbarring six and suspending eight. Some attorneys received more than one form of discipline. Four attorneys were publicly reprimanded and one was placed on probation. One attorney was also ordered to pay restitution.
TOMMY Sheridan yesterday sacked his THIRD lawyer in his fight over allegations made about his sex life.
The former MSP axed QC Maggie Scott during his perjury trial, saying he had lost confidence in her and she "failed to follow" his instructions.
His move comes after he gave Donald Findlay QC the boot before the trial at the High Court in Glasgow had even begun.
Judge's ruling vanishes from docket, replaced by one with different facts
When Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee last spring, the case appeared to be a routine setback for an Obama administration that has lost a string of such cases.
But there turns out to be nothing ordinary about the habeas case brought by Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, a Yemeni held without charges for nearly eight years. Uthman, accused by two U.S. administrations of being an al-Qaida fighter and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is among 48 detainees the Obama administration has deemed too dangerous to release but "not feasible for prosecution."
A Philadelphia judge has dismissed the legal malpractice claim brought by a Philadelphia multimillionaire businessman against Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis because the statute of limitations bars the claim.
Plaintiff Raymond G. Perelman, who has made a fortune selling 30 to 50 businesses and building up his interests in manufacturing, mining and finance, sued Schnader Harrison and former Schnader Harrison attorney Vickie J. Waitsman regarding the handling of a business transaction, Philadelphia Common Pleas Senior Judge Albert W. Sheppard Jr. said in an Oct. 4 opinion in Perelman v. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis .
State GOP leaders Monday called on DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton to disclose details on settlement of a seven-year-old lawsuit against him by a former aide.
In the 2003 suit, Brad Hanson alleged that Dayton wrongly dismissed him from his job as the Minnesota office manager for Dayton after Hanson asked for time off to deal with a medical condition. Dayton had said Hanson was fired because of poor job performance.
STAMFORD -- The lawyer for a group of women involved in a class-action lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital want a judge to uphold a portion of their claims arguing the hospital used deceptive and unfair trade practices that caused them to lose money.
But the hospital has asked a judge to strike two major counts of lawsuit from the record, arguing the plaintiffs do not make a "cognizable claim" under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUPTA).
Roger Clemens is in trouble due to his alleged lies to Congress, but Red Sox fans can tell you this isn't the former pitcher's first brush with the law. (AP)
Vikings quarterback Brett Favre is the latest high-profile athlete to be put in the spotlight for his questionable behavior, for incidents of apparent sexual harassment while he was a member of the Jets. In recent months, Jets receiver Braylon Edwards was charged with DUI, and Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez was arrested for striking his girlfriend’s father outside the team’s family lounge at Citi Field.
Dedication honors the memory of Patricia Ann Weston who was a respected and dedicated employee who mentored many planners and engineers throughout her 30-year state career with Caltrans. She was instrumental in developing the Transportation Development Act; in securing Urban Mass Transportation Administration grants; and in writing the 1998 Interregional Strategic Plan, “GoCalifornia”, and the Governor’s
A North Naples man faces his second drunken driving charge after leading deputies on a two-mile chase at speeds of up to 100 mph as he fled to his home Saturday night, deputies say.
James Michael Livingston, 29, of the 100 block of Wading Bird Circle, allegedly reached for Cpl. Ralph Scala's holster as he pushed him to the ground, began crying and told Scala and Deputy Jason Stauffer, "You have nothing on me," according to his arrest report.
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In a shocking personal injury case,12-year old Teagan Marti, was severely injured after being released from a free-fall ride, when no safety net was stationed. Teagan's 100-feet plunge in Extreme World's Extreme Velocity ride tragically ended when operator Charles Carnell “blanked out” and dropped her, yet there was no signal that it was harmless to do so.
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MUMBAI: Can a divorce be granted to a woman whose husband is dead? The Pune family court certainly thought so and passed just such an order recently. But finding the Pune order nothing short of "preposterous, a bench of Justices B H Marlapalle and U D Salvi of the Bombay high court set it aside on Monday.
JACKSON, MISS—A Mississippi lawyer has been jailed after a judge found him in contempt when he declined to recite the pledge of allegiance.
Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn jailed attorney Danny Lampley, 49, on Wednesday.
Lampley was in court representing a client in a divorce case. He was released after spending about five hours in jail so he could represent another client, according to the judge.
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - October 11, 2010) - After you've made the difficult decision to end your marriage, your next important decision is choosing a divorce lawyer who will obtain the best results for you and your family. "When choosing a doctor or a surgeon to perform a complicated medical procedure, a patient looks for a doctor not only with the requisite expertise but also one with a good bedside manner," says Felicia R. Meyers, partner, Meyer, Olson, Lowy & Meyers, LLP . "By asking the right questions of a potential attorney and getting a feeling that your personalities mesh, you can likewise increase your chances of getting an outcome that sets you up to thrive in your new, post-marriage life."
Excellent article by David North who brings to light one of the top priorities for illegal aliens is the acquisition of a set of valid license plates. Once acquired and with good driving habits, an illegal alien can remain undetected for years.
Denying License Plates to Illegals, Too
In the perennial battle between the plaintiff bar and the (re)insurance industry the attornies won a decisive victory in California this month.
Zurich - the owner of Farmers Group - agreed to pay $445mn to settle a Californian class action (Fogel v Farmers) dating back to 1999, saying it would be too costly to mount a defence against allegations of overcharging management fees.
vimeo.comMike Villines speaks at a budget press conference in 2008.
With the next California insurance commissioner expected to play a significant role in the way national health care reform is implemented in the state, the insurance industry is watching the race between Democrat Dave Jones and Republican Mike Villines closely.
Policies cropping up to service medical marijuana dispensaries
NORTH BAY, CALIFORNIA – As medical marijuana has become increasingly more widely accepted, a new market has begun to emerge for a variety of businesses opening their services to the once-fringe industry that sprung up only in 1996.
BROOKLYN, NY, October 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Nothing breeds confidence in a good law firm like results. The Brooklyn Lawyers, Reibman & Weiner certainly has achieved their share of successful outcomes. More than that, however, they have a remarkably unique blend of experience that's sets them far apart of other law firms.
SUMMARY: Article by BC Personal Injury and ICBC Claims lawyer Erik Magraken discussing disputes with ICBC regarding fault following a collision and legal options in pursing claims to address these disputes.
This article is authored by British Columbia personal injury lawyer Erik Magraken and pertains to legal matters in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. This article is posted for information only and is not claim-specific legal advice. The Author can only provide legal advice to clients. Please contact Erik Magraken at MacIsaac & Company (250-381-5353) or toll free in British Columbia (1800-663-6299) to arrange your free ICBC claims consultation.
Medicare liens are the bane of personal injury lawyers trying to reach a settlement. Settlements don't and can't parse out pain and suffering damages for medical bills. What goes to the wrongful death claim? What goes to the survival action? If you get a verdict at trial, this all gets resolved. But with undifferentiated settlements it is hard to determine what money would have gone where.
In the U.S., laws are framed keeping the welfare of citizens and consumers in mind. As such numerous lawsuits are leveled every year that are fought by specialized lawyers. In recent news, a 44 year old family doctor from Wysox, Pennsylvania, Constance Sweets has been apprehended for breaking the law while practicing family medicine. She has been charged of aggravating pre-existing drug addictions and related afflictions of her patients by prescribing them with drugs like Vicodin and Percocets which are known aggravators.
Being distracted while driving is one of the main causes of car accidents in the country, and one woman who allegedly couldn't put down the phone may be found responsible for a car crash.
A woman has filed a car accident lawsuit against another driver who allegedly caused the accident while texting.
According to UltimateLakeHouston, Gladys Gorrell filed a car accident lawsuit against Stephanie Escobar, claiming negligence.
Is it ever easy being a leading player in any market? There are always some or the other allegation that is being leveled at you. Nokia is in the news once again. Thankfully, this time around it’s for all the right reasons! The brand new Nokia C 97 is being shipped already. After just 28 days of making the announcement, Nokia C 97 is all set to be shipped to users in any location.
A federal jury has ordered Transocean to pay more than $4 million in damages to an oilfield worker injured in an offshore rig accident.
The recent judgment capped a trial for the lawsuit that 32-year-old Dan Averette filed over the July 14, 2007, accident aboard the Amirante, a rig owned by Transocean Enterprise Inc. and operated by Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc.
Megyn Kelly and Monica Crowley of Fox News rip into the Obama administration over ten Latin American countries being allowed to join in on Mexico's "friend of the court" brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the Justice Department's challenge to Arizona's SB-1070 immigration law. The video of the news story is available on YouTube under the title, "YOU MUST WATCH THIS: IMPEACH OBAMA NOW." It might be expected the person posting this was editorializing a bit, but if you watch the video, that pretty much captures the sentiment of the news report.
A former chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney is set to argue for former Bush administration procurement official David Safavian later this month in a federal appeals court in Washington.
Steptoe & Johnson partner Shannen Coffin in Washington filed a notice of appearance last month in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Coffin, who concentrates in appellate and Supreme Court litigation, announced Oct. 8 he will argue for Safavian, who was convicted on false statement and obstruction of justice charges in late 2008 as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
If the stripper known as Confidential Informant-1 is to believed, Jack T. Camp Jr., a folksy, suspenders-wearing federal judge, walked into the Goldrush Showbar last spring, got private dances from her and almost immediately asked if they could get high together.
Soon, the dancer and the judge were snorting cocaine, having sex and kicking off a months-long romp that ended Oct. 1 with his arrest in the parking lot of another strip club where he was buying drugs, the FBI said. In his pockets, Camp had what he thought were cocaine and painkillers, authorities said. In his car were two pistols, including a cocked and loaded .380 Sig Sauer he allegedly brought along to protect his illicit sweetheart.
Self-defense angle does not help driver charged with eluding police
The defendant fled the traffic stop scene and called 911, informing the dispatcher that an officer beat him with a baton and he was on his way to the police station to make a report. Recently, the appeals court upheld his conviction for eluding police.
Correcting real estate documents just got easier with the creation of Wis. Stat. section 706.085. Effective May 28, 2010, corrections to real estate documents may be made by a correction instrument. The author describes the types of errors that may be corrected, who may sign the documents, and how the notification of correction is to be made and provides tips for drafting and executing correction affidavits.
In 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based non-profit civil rights organization, published an article titled, "State of Denial: Turkey Spends Millions to Cover Up Armenian Genocide." It was a hard-hitting exposé of the Turkish government's elaborate and sinister efforts to pressure U.S. politicians and entice academics to deny the facts of the Armenian genocide.
The ABA Journal reports that the number of libel suits has been steadily dropping in the United States:
During his 30 years as a lawyer for the New York Times Co., George Freeman says, the "Gray Lady" faced four to five new libel suits per year, on average, and has had maybe eight pending against it at any one time. But that's all changed.
The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce awarded William Miller the Premier Volunteer Award on Sept. 15 in recognition of his outstanding volunteer service, leadership positions, commitment to the chamber and special achievements. Miller retired in 1998 as regional sales manager for L.B. Foster Co. in San Francisco. He began his volunteer work for the chamber in 2000.
The reality of Bigg Boss has come home a bit too forcefully for Abbas Kazmi, who represented 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Qasab.
The criminal lawyer, who was eliminated from the house after the votes went against him, has now been asked to resign from his position as managing trustee of the Imamia Masjid by community leaders.
Lawyers seek permission to argue death penalty is too costly
At first, it looked like defense and prosecution lawyers were both trying to break new legal ground in the death penalty phase of Steven Hayes’ triple murder trial.
New Haven Chief Public Defender Thomas Ullmann has asked to present testimony that the death penalty is both too expensive and too drawn out – with some 15 years of appeals – to be worth imposing, and that life incarceration is cheaper.
Then the cavalry arrived. Leading lawyers from around the country, sensing that the case was one of the rare ones that might reach the Supreme Court, called to offer free help. Mr. Fernandez-Vargas’s immigration lawyer was delighted, and he chose a lawyer from a prominent firm here.
But there was a catch, and then a controversy. The catch was that the Washington lawyer, David M. Gossett, would take the case only if he could argue before the Supreme Court himself.
( PRLEAP.COM ) Matian and Moaddel, a Los Angeles based law firm, announces the launch of their new website designed to expand their expungement services in California. The launch of this website signals a new era of expungement in the State of California. Residents of Riverside, Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties may now utilize the expungement services of Matian and Moaddel.
Blasting Amendments 5 and 6, Hispanic leaders have formed a steering committee to beat back the so-called FairDistricts initiatives.
“Instead of preserving and expanding minority representation in Florida, Amendments 5 and 6 will take aim at Florida’s communities of interest and put their representation at risk," said Protect Your Vote National Chairman, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who is presiding over the consolidated federal BP oil spill litigation , has appointed 19 attorneys to serve in leadership roles in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL). The BP oil spill lawyers will perform actions during pretrial proceedings that will benefit all plaintiffs who have filed a lawsuit in federal court over damages caused by the massive Gulf Coast spill.
Countless women in Kashmir have been left to bring up their children alone following the 'enforced disappearance' of their husbands. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP
Twenty-eight year old Haleema (name changed) is a resident of the predominantly Muslim Anantnag district of southern Kashmir. In a region where the literacy rate is 42% for men and 25% for most women, she is known in her community as a "half-widow", a term given to women whose husbands have completely disappeared and are still missing during the ongoing conflict in Kashmir.
Today's guest blogger is Lester Brickman , Professor of Law and former Acting Dean at at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
The dispute over the growth of tort liability and whether this has resulted in a “litigation explosion” transcends mere statistical jousting. Invariably, those who conclude that there has been explosive growth in tort litigation support reforms to roll back excessive tort liability expansion. Conversely, those who reject the explosive growth thesis also reject tort reforms as unnecessary and unwise. In the tort reform wars, the battle over whether there has been a substantial increase in the scope of tort liability and resulting “explosion” in litigation, as measured by the volume of tort litigation, looms large. The accepted wisdom, of course, is that the claim of a “litigation explosion” is pure bunk. Not so fast.
Jacqueline Harounian has been named by New York Super Lawyers magazine as one of the outstanding attorneys in the New York Metro area for 2010. Only five percent of lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers, for attaining a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Great Neck, NY ( PRWEB ) October 11, 2010 -- Jacqueline Harounian has been named by New York Super Lawyers magazine as one of the outstanding attorneys in the New York Metro area for 2010. Only five percent of lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers, for attaining a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
11 October 2010 Katie Price and Peter Andre are apparently set for a 7 day hearing in their divorce proceedings.
Each plan to turn up with a raft of witnesses, presumably to substantiate or disprove the bad behaviour they allege against each other.
But what weight does a court give to allegations of bad behaviour when it comes to legal proceedings?
Almost half of young people may demand pre-nuptial agreements before getting married, according to research published.
"Prenups" are no longer the exclusive territory of the rich and famous, lawyers said, as research showed 44% of 18 to 24-year-olds would consider them.
Divorcees heading for a second marriage were also likely to make arrangements, with 42% of 45 to 54-year-olds saying they would think about them, according to a OnePoll survey of 1,000 people for law firm Dawsons LLP.
Poses serious threat to privacy warns network admin
Some two thirds of popular Apple iPhone applications transmit users UDIDs, leading to potential security concerns, a new study has warned.
Eric Smith, Assistant Director of Information Security and Networking at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, discovered 68 per cent of the 57 top applications in the Apple iTunes App Store sent out UDID information, back to a remote server, owned either by the application developer or an advertising partner.
Oct 11, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Lizzie Cundy’s fourteen year old marriage is on the rocks, with her husband having left her and their two children to move in with Hannah Pedley, an oprah singer. Lizzie Cundy who gave advice to others about marriage and relationships, failed to notice that her 16 year old marriage was deteriorating towards a pathetic end. Jason Cundy reportedly met Hannah Pedley on a train while coming back from the races. The chance meeting developed into a relationship. Though they had met in April, Lizzie Cundy had no idea about the affair until June. There are mixed reports regarding the discovery of her husband cheating on her, one report claims that a family member overheard him talking dirty to Hannah Pedley on the mobile.
The days of “what’s mine is yours and yours is mine” seem to be ending . According to a poll from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) , 73% of divorce attorneys cite an i ncrease in prenuptial agreements during the past five years. And no one gender is to blame. The AAML says that 52% of members have seen an increase in women initiating the requests.
Buffy Spencer, The Republican
The Republican / Don Treeger Hampden County district attorney candidate Stephen Buoniconti, who has attacked opponent Mark Mastroianni for Mastroianni's work as a defense lawyer, has acknowledged his own work as a defense lawyer.
PARIS (AP) -Alberto Contador advances a host of claims, from contaminated meat to questionable laboratory practices, to explain why he should not be punished for testing positive at this year's Tour de France for the banned performance enhancer clenbuterol. But closer scrutiny of his arguments suggests that his lawyers could have a very hard time getting the three-time Tour champion off the hook. Here are some reasons why:
Enhances Firm’s Cross-Border Capabilities, Brings Deep Knowledge of Fund Formation, Corporate Transactions and Employee Incentive Plans
Jenny Wheater, a lawyer with a wide range of experience in UK and international tax issues, has joined Proskauer as a Partner in London, expanding the depth of the firm’s London Private Investment Funds practice and Tax Department, and continuing the growth of its global transactional platform.
